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Gina ford! Lol!

Hi, I'm a first time mum & have read the gina ford book (well one chapter, the breast feeding one!) which says you should feed every 3hours & it can all be timed etc in her kinda way!
Has anyone tried it? Does it work?
I put 'lol' after the title cause I'm guessing not!
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Ahem I have some giggles for ms ford - personally I couldn't do her method. My LO spaces her feeds out between an hour and 5.5 hours by demand feeding... So perhaps not 3 hourly however my timing app tells me her average is 3h 20m so maybe that is what gina means??

I have noticed my LO cluster feeding a few times in the evening which is either growth spurt or the evening milk supply (mw advises milk changes in evening?) - not that I mind which, I just feed her anyway - so I think if I was doing 3 hourly I would spend 2 hours listening to a screaming baby, which, tbf I'm not massively up for when I can just give her the boob then peace is restored ;-)

No chance - (evil woman IMO!) babies don't come with a built-in egg-timer! Feed-on-demand is how BFing works & putting baby on a schedule that suits your day not LO's is nothing about supply & demand that I can see! Gina Ford was a nanny, is a self-proclaimed expert & yet has no children of her own & has never breastfed so where her expertise is from is beyond me... Her advice is a sure-fire way to decrease your milk supply ... Follow at your peril!! X

RUBBISH. I ignored everything she said, but PLEASE ignore her BFing advice - it's rubbish. You have to feed responsively in order to build your supply. Scheduled feeding is the reason that so many women in the 50s, 60s and 70s failed at BFing, as this was medical advice back then, with no research base.

Also - babies can't tell the time! And even as adults, we don't eat every X amount of hours, we eat/snack/drink whenever we need it. Remember that milk is food, snacks and drinks for your baby.

I've never tried, I don't agree with any of it but you can make it work, in the sense that you don't have to pick up your baby and feed them if you choose not too... Lol, not very helpful I know, just don't _get_ that style of parenting:/ Did you pay much for the book? ;P

Some Mum's will swear they can BF and follow Gina Ford, but evidence / research shows that demand feeding is what is needed to establish / maintain BF. Current advice for FF is to demand feed too so GIna Ford is pretty outdated. She's not qualified in BF in any way so I personally would not take her advice if you want to BF. Look for books written by IBCLCs or similar (most qualified BF professionals). These might be useful:

Noooooooo!!! Gina ford is defo a bit outdated!! I used her book in 2004 with my DD but she was ff and it still didn't work! I think since discovering bf I have realised it's not just about the "feeding" but the whole nurturing beeasfeeding experience! When Freddie is upset I nurture him with boobie , we co- sleep and he's latched on most of the night but at least I'm getting some sleep!
Sorry but no no no to gina! Just my opinion though! Xxx

Personally I'm not a follower.
But- my friend has Done this with her 5 month old and he's stuck to it and slept through from a young age. My booby monster thinks I'm the worlds worst and screams if she has to wait for her booby feeds, so she'd have none of it. But then she's demand fed from day 1. My mates baby's been gina lead from day 1, so it is possible.

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